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Charley is dallying at Corfu, and anxiously hoping to see the Crimea.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund

I am sure that the expedition is dallying here till I am well, for that is just like Mr Pepson.

From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

All this the Loafer hears through the open door of his cottage, where in his shirt-sleeves he is dallying with his bacon, as a gentleman should.

From Pagan Papers by Grahame, Kenneth

"In short," said Mr. Wildmere, irritably, "she is dallying with both, and may lose both by her hesitating folly."

From A Young Girl's Wooing by Roe, Edward Payson

He is tired of me, and perhaps on some distant coast he is dallying with a newer sweetheart.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner